Personal hero and why: Elon Musk. He has reshaped the future of electric and hybrid cars and transportation by creating the company Tesla Motors, which is basically forcing larger automotive manufacturers into researching and developing electric cars and more efficient hybrids.
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Today Wisconsin Basketball will face Oregon for a chance to play in the sweet sixteen. This is an important game for the Badgers as Oregon's west coast offense and size will play a tough match up for Wisconsin.
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For many, Facebook connects friends, family, and others with common interests. Despite the popularity of social networking sites like Facebook, scientists are only beginning to learn how they affect human interaction.
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Former Wayne County Circuit Court chief judge Richard Kaufman has been named second-in command to Wayne County Executive Warren Evans. "As second-in-command, Mr. Kaufman is a key addition to my administration and I am confident that his wealth of knowledge and experience is vital as we face the County's financial crisis," Evans said in a statement.
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A new survey finds that hospital doctors don't treat patients differently because of race or income level, even though it detected unconscious bias in some clinicians. Researchers asked more than 200 doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore how they would respond to various hypothetical situations involving white and black patients, and rich and poor patients.
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That's the conclusion of a new study that suggests that each additional hour of sleep increased by 14 percent the likelihood a woman would engage in sexual activity with a partner the next day. "Our study showed that good sleep is important for healthy sexual desire and arousal in women, even when women are psychiatrically and medically healthy," said study author David Kalmbach, a researcher at the University of Michigan Sleep and Circadian Research Laboratory.
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LSA sophomore Joseph Hansel discusses the resolution to support the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor becoming a signatory on the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment at the CSG meeting on Tuesday. Buy this photo The Central Student Government Assembly passed several resolutions at their meeting Tuesday evening, including a proposal to support additional off-campus lighting and the inclusion of the University's Sexual Misconduct Policy on course syllabi.
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Heaney is Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies and Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of American Politics at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, and as the William A. Steiger Fellow in the Congressional Fellowship Program at the American Political Science Association.
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The Pittsburgh City Council proclaimed today as Sally Wiggin day in honor of the WTAE Journalist and Chronicle Host. Council members, city officials, coworkers from WTAE Pittsburgh's Action News 4, and friends joined Sally as she was honored in council chambers.
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Graduate school isn't like undergrad when, in theory, you could take a year or two to choose a major and poke around different career paths. The process moves a little faster as an MBA student.
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Apple's Siri started the trend, followed by Google's Now and Microsoft's Cortana, but they all are just copy-cats of a flawed original, according to the University of Michigan . Yes, they all answer verbal questions about things you can look up on the Internet, but the the University of Michigan's free open-source Sirius one-ups all three by doing the things that they can't, plus allows users to customize it to do things that none have ever done before.
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In an analysis of about 2,600 hospitalizations for severe sepsis, readmissions within 90 days were common, and approximately 40 percent occurred for diagnoses that could potentially be prevented or treated early to avoid hospitalization, according to a study in the March 10 issue of JAMA. Patients are frequently rehospitalized within 90 days after having severe sepsis.
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In an analysis of about 2,600 hospitalizations for severe sepsis, readmissions within 90 days were common, and approximately 40 percent occurred for diagnoses that could potentially be prevented or treated early to avoid hospitalization, according to a study in the March 10 issue of JAMA . Patients are frequently rehospitalized within 90 days after having severe sepsis.
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Systematic review publications are important to health care and policy decisions, but they are not without their limitations. Understanding these limitations, and being able to instruct patrons on them, is a key component of our work as health sciences information professionals.
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Lyra Holiday, age 8, from Seattle talks with doctors, Chauncy Handran, a third-year medical student at the University of Washington and Dr. Dominic Femiano, resident of family medicine, about a wart on her foot at the Group Health Cooperative in Seattle. UW's Primary Care Medical School program was ranked No.
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J. Fraser Jackson, M.D., 95, longtime East Liverpool physician, passed away Sunday, March 8, 2015 following complications of old age. Dr. Jackson was born April 27, 1919 in Coulsdon, Surrey, England, a son of Sarah McConnachie Jackson and James Henry Jackson, coming to the United States at the age of six months.
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